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VIDEO | Global: Stephan Said’s Arab Freedom Anthem

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2011 AT 07:52PM

WITNESS  |  Stephan Said, directed by Matt Kohn, HELO Magazine, January – February 2011

 

 

 

 

As largely peaceful democratic movements take on repressive governments across the Middle East and North Africa, singer-activist and ‘troubadour of the Altermondialist’ movement Stephan Said, with Director Matt Kohn, agreed with HB (then HELO Magazine) to run this brand new music video.

 

It’s an editorial aimed to rally support toward building an international movement for peaceful democracy not only in Tunisia and Egypt but across the Arab world. Here’s how Said and his team describe the project:

 

“Stephan Said [has just released] “Aheb Eisht Al Hurriyeh,” (I Love the Life of Freedom) to be used freely by all those who are working to build the international movement for a more just society. This is our moment! Share the video and mp3, We want to live in freedom!

 

Words by Egyptian poet-laureate Ahmed Shawki, first put to music in the 1930’s by great Egyptian composer Mohamed Abdel Wahab. This is produced by Grammy Winning producer Hal Willner. Video directed by Matt Kohn.

 

“Stephan Said is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual musician, global activist, and spokesperson. His sound fuses pop, rock, hip-hop, and world folk musics with a border-breaking message of unity. Said first rose to global renown as the ‘troubadour of the Altermondialist (next world) movement when his antiwar song “The Bell,” became “the first major song against the war in Iraq,” pioneering the use of mp3’s and music videos for social change for the internet generation. Stephan is American, his father is Iraqi and his mother Austrian.”

 

For more about his activist movement, here’s Stephan Said’s website. For more from the video Director, here’s Matt Kohn’s Vimeo page.

 

Shukran jazilan, Stephan!